Aneurin Barnard Quotes
I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I'm not graceful.
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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As an actor, it is okay to fall and get up. Then you can give your best. Sometimes audiences don't receive it well, but you have to take it in the right sense. It is part and parcel of being in the industry.
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It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.
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When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
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I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.
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I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.
